100 Reasons why vinyl is the superior format.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (204 of them)

View Previous Page...

Eyeball you're a funny guy.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

12. It's hard to send through the post.

I was sent vinyl through the mail once. It was fine. Wasn't broken at all.

76. They have vinal that glows in the dark!!!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

vinyl

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

75. They know no such thing as disc-rot.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

I was sent vinyl through the mail once. It was fine. Wasn't broken at all.

Yeah, yeah, it's a piece of piss receiving it. But try sending it...

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

74, The Bass!!! The Bass!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

Listen to tower of dub by the orb on vinyl and then listen on cd. Hah! the bass is the thing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

100. The absence of vinyl walkmans.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

73. They can include gadgets like grooves inbetween grooves and can be without end.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

45. The fact that you can't hear the bass so well.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

70. The way you have to walk around all carefully near the record player to avoid skips.

Vinyl was dead before I was born, and I can remember my Dad being on edge every time we played his old "Star Wars" record.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

71. When the needle is stuck in the groove you'll usually get a cool loop insted of cd's bababababababadadadadadadadadakakakakakakaka...

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

72. 101 Strings Play The Sounds of Love

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

But try sending it...

It was just in an envolope lined with bubble wrap

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

69. The Star Wars record.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

You can play them backwards!!! last record i bought that you could play backwards was side 3 of rings around the world by SFA.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

90. Same size as laserdiscs, without the boring film.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

66. You can use them as a rain shield.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

The cover of the For Whom The Bell Tolls soundtrack-with ingrid bergman crying-is the most beautiful album cover ever and it would just look shitty on a cd.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

*mathematical angst*

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

65. You can't download it.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

Maypang!

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

64. You can't upload it (actually, you can)

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

You can melt two records in the oven and make one record that is half AC/DC and half Dolly Parton!! And play it!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Fucking genius from Scott there, but he didn't put a number so it doesn't count.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

62. When they get wobbley you can iron them to save one side.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

22. No joke: the end of Brighton Rock.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

60. You can cut them at home.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

59. Cover: VG+ w/ some light ringwear, 2 inch seam split on bottom edge, soft top right corner. Vinyl: EX, some surface scratches, original gloss still intact, a few spindle marks on side B, plays as M-.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

60. You can cut them at home.

What's this? You can make CDs or tapes a lot easier. Roger shouldn't count.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

you can make a diorama of a city street with the vinyl version of Paul's Boutique but if you try this with the cd you will just look like an idiot.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

77. It takes up more room in your flat.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

You can make CDs or tapes a lot easier.

True, but cutting records is cooler, therefore: superior.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

76. They can come with one side etched.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

i have records that are 60 years old that still play brilliantly. good luck with those strokes cd's.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

75. 7-inch single adapters are way more cool then 3-inch cd adapters.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

74. Roger like it.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

They sometimes write cool stuff in the trail-off area.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

signed live p-funk records with cryptic messages about dogs and bitches from george clinton and posters and iron-on t-shirt transfers would just be inconceivable with a cd no matter how cool jason spaceman trys to make them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

71. Burglars can't be arsed nicking a whole stack of them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

sometimes records come with bonus 7-inch singles!!! oh yeah, cd's come with bonus tracks sometimes. Lame!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

70. music isn't supposed to be heard with such clarity. you need all those pops and crackles and shit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

69. Clean
69. Your
69. Weed

― weather, Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

It's fun to watch people pay lots of money for worthless reissues thinking they're getting an original pressing.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

i just bought a first pressing of Captain Beefheart's Strictly Personal in great shape at the thrift store last week for 50 cents!! you know how much a cd copy of it would cost me at the very same thrift store if i found one? 3 dollars!!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

My used copy of An Evening With Wildman Fischer still has pot seeds in the gatefold!!! Ancient 60's-era pot seeds!!!! what will i ever find in a cd to remind me of a bygone era? nothing, that's what.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

70. music isn't supposed to be heard with such clarity. you need all those pops and crackles and shit.

I already said it makes that popping sound.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

sorry, I was actually quoting a scene from Mr. Show where a guy declares that he only listens to vin-yeel and that his victrola is the only piece of modern technology that he will touch.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

you need to buy nicer copies of stuff you two. i understand the pop and crackle thing kinda, but really there is no reason to listen to records that pop and crackle.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

i love that mr. show skit. it leads into the dickie crickets megaphone skit.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

Skipping 104 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

19. you can clean dirty records and they sound better

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link

18. house music

― erschloraque, Thursday, 21 October 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link

why house music?

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 October 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link

tonight, having just opened the syl johnson vinyl set from numero group, this cheap record player is a revelation. The sound is noticeably better -- richer, warmer, fuller, better dynamics.

and yeah, the whole record package makes it seem more like a valuable art object. thrilled with this.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 22 October 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link

I like that it slows me down and that it isn't easy to switch to something else.

this is my favorite thing about vinyl these days. step away from a computer, put away a cellphone, and just d-_-b

― original bgm, Friday, 22 October 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link

I can't wait to actually have the space and the cash again to do a full stereo setup with a turntable and to start buying vinyl again. Esp since I have a hand-me-down macintosh amp and receiver that I'm psyched to set up.

― Bobby Short, Wayne Shorter (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 October 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah sometimes i buy old classical records just for the sleeves and swap them out.

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 October 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Box sets where you carefully lift out the black plates by their edges, rather than tangling with complex plastic hinges that snap in an instant

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 23 October 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link

okay, yesterday & today records is close-ish to my area. now vinyl-obsessed, i will try to visit it tomorrow.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 24 October 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link

17. a big vinyl collection impresses people

― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Sunday, 24 October 2010 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link

16. when your stylus wears out, you buy a new one. when your laser gets damaged, the whole unit is fucked.

― jumpskins, Sunday, 24 October 2010 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link

been thinking of just buying vinyl again when I do buy albums, at least they will appreciate in value, unlike this worthless 1000 cd collection I am saddled with.

― akm, Sunday, 24 October 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.